74 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



" generally with the lower pinnae more or less reduced, sometimes 

 not so," insert no reduction of lower pinnce and no auricles, and 

 omit from the synonyms Neph. pennigerum, Bl. ; multili- 

 neatum, Wall. Cat. 353 ; and pennigerum var. multilineatum 

 Clarke (the 1st being multilineatum, Wall. ; the 2nd, multili- 

 neatum partly and truncatum partly ; the 3rd, evolutum). 



Darrang in Assam (Mann), Sylhet (Griffith), JBurkul and 

 Kaslong in Chittagong (Clarke, No. 8,276), Jirie Ghat, Munipore, 

 300 feet alt. (Clarke, No. 42,581), Wynad, Malabar (Henderson, 

 fronds 8 feet long). The Ceylon specimen referred to abortivum 

 in the Synopsis Filicum is this species. 



In the Herbarium of the Nat. Hist. Museum there is a 

 specimen, collected in Mysore by Buchanan, with the pinnae 

 elongato-triangular, the apical portion being much contracted 

 and in seed, the lower portion broad and sterile ; at Kew a 

 similar form, collected in Chittagong ; in South Indian examples 

 often some portions or one side of a pinna only, will be contracted 

 and fertile. Mr. Mann sends both the contracted and uncon- 

 tracted varieties from Assam. 



Both in the Species Filicum and in the Synopsis the descrip- 

 tion of this fern includes multilineatum Wall., a South Malay 

 peninsula fern, of a different texture and colour, with a stipe fur- 

 nished with very regular auricles, which has lately been gathered 

 copiously by Scortechini, Day, King and others, 



Var. malayense. More herbaceous in texture, pinna? cut 

 down rather deeper, only 2-3 lower pair of veins anastomosing, 

 surfaces rather densely covered on both sides (veins and lamina) 

 with short hairs. 



Perak. (Scortechini. Day. King, No. 2,360.) Tenasserim 

 (Parish). 



Nephrodium polycarpum. (Bl.) Mesochlcena polycarpa, 

 Handbook. 



Perak, (Day.) Mr. Day collected two forms of this, one with 

 the pinnae \- f inch broad ; the other with them ii 



